They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and
rodomontade. The prime bullies and braves among the free trappers had each his circle of novices, from among the captain's band; mere greenhorns, men unused to Indian life; mangeurs de lard, or pork-eaters; as such new-comers are superciliously called by the veterans of the wilderness.
She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook
rodomontade so exceedingly desperate.
She knows what she's about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she'll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some
rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage, he flatters himself that she's devotedly attached to him; that she will not refuse him for his poverty, and does not court him for his rank, but loves him for himself alone.'
He has invented words leaving tweeters dazzled, such as "webaqoof" (someone who believes every allegation or claim on the internet to be true) and "
rodomontade" (boastful talk or behaviour).
I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea I want to convey, not the most obscure or
rodomontade ones!".
He underlined that despite the initial
rodomontade of Trump and a number of regional oil producers, the US government ultimately confessed to the severe shortage of oil and the impossibility of eliminating Iran from the market.
Paul Pioneer once described a Donnelly speech as "a
rodomontade, full of empty bluster and boasting, of passionate adjurations, of morbid sentimentality, and of rhetorical pyrotechnics." And even readers of his diary may sometimes wonder if there was more to Donnelly than his ornate, ornery style of comic writing.<br />Disapproving of a U.S.
Brotton shows how Marlowe's characterizing of Tamburlaine creates unease in spectators by almost simultaneously exciting horror at his cruelty and excitement at the brilliance of his fiery and seductive
rodomontade (160-6).
(1998) The third time as
rodomontade. Overland 150, 5-10.
'Unfortunately there has always been a sentimental section of people who can indulge in the rhetoric of the
rodomontade, but this class never allies itself ...
By that one act he would not only demonstrate leadership but a concern for the welfare of his province that goes beyond the
rodomontade of political rhetoric.
The instructor chants inane rhyming exhortations in the Jesse Jackson mode, "blister[ing] the walls with oratory that, though it had a spectacular lilt, a seductive cadence, and tremendous emotional power, made no sense whatsoever." Freddy asks him what the point of this furious
rodomontade might be, and he answers, "'I want you to know, that you can take, pow-wah!